Spencer, Baldwin, 1860-1929
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Spencer, Baldwin, Sir, 1860-1929
Spencer, Walter Baldwin, 1860-1929
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Stretford (Greater Manchester, England)
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found: The northern tribes of central Australia, 1904:title page (Baldwin Spencer)
found: Wanderings in wild Australia, 1928title page (Sir Baldwin Spencer)
found: Australian Dictionary of Biography, via WWW, May 21, 2014(Spencer, Sir Walter Baldwin (1860-1929); Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer (1860-1929), university scientist and administrator, anthropologist and connoisseur, was born on 23 June 1860 at Stretford, Lancashire, England; he graduated with a B.A. from the University of Oxford in 1884 with a first in science; he was appointed chair of biology at the University of Melbourne in 1887; he retired as emeritus professor in 1919; in 1929 he sailed to Tierra del Fuego to undertake anthropological field-work; after three months under bleak conditions, Spencer died from angina pectoris on 14 July 1929 in a snowbound hut on Navarin Island; elected fellow of the Royal Society in 1900, he was appointed C.M.G. in 1904 and K.C.M.G. in 1916)
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1979-04-05: new
2023-09-08: revised
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